Nature Publishing Index - 2012 Global Top 100

These rankings are based on the number1 of papers that were published in 2012 from the institutions2 listed below. These rankings only include primary research papers that were published as "Articles, Letters and Brief Communications" in Nature and/or Nature monthly research journals.

To view the list of articles from an institution click on the number in the right hand column.

  • Research Articles
Institution CC3 Articles4
1. Harvard University, USA 152.11 368
2. Stanford University, USA 76.34 161
3. Max Planck Society, Germany 64.31 186
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA 60.49 199
5. French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 45.91 246
6. National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA 43.82 143
7. University of Washington, USA 40.97 102
8. University of Cambridge, UK 39.8 137
9. The University of Tokyo, Japan 39.72 116
10. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland 39.28 72
11. University of California Berkeley, USA 38.23 98
12. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 37.88 91
13. University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA 37.44 95
14. University of Oxford, UK 36.97 131
15. Columbia University in the City of New York, USA 34.76 89
16. Yale University, USA 34.46 82
17. University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA 33.24 95
18. The Johns Hopkins University, USA 32.82 94
19. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA 26.97 82
20. University of Michigan, USA 25.89 76
21. Northwestern University, USA 25.34 54
22. University of Chicago, USA 24.88 54
23. University of Illinois, USA 24.49 55
24. California Institute of Technology, USA 24.28 63
25. Kyoto University, Japan 22.47 55
26. The Scripps Research Institute, USA 22.2 44
27. University of Pennsylvania, USA 21.24 58
28. Washington University in St. Louis, USA 21.04 74
29. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 20.54 34
30. Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 20.4 100
31. Princeton University, USA 20.39 44
32. Duke University, USA 20.03 67
33. RIKEN, Japan 19.57 80
34. Cornell University, USA 19.53 64
35. New York University, USA 18.53 47
36. Osaka University, Japan 18.18 54
37. University of Toronto, Canada 17.15 63
38. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA 16.17 44
39. Medical Research Council (MRC), UK 16.12 38
40. University of London - University College London, UK 15.63 79
41. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 15.24 52
42. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland 15.17 43
43. The University of Texas at Austin, USA 14.91 43
44. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA 14.58 30
45. University of Geneva, Switzerland 14.06 42
46. University of Pittsburgh, USA 14.01 44
47. University of Minnesota, USA 13.89 47
48. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA 12.97 73
49. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA 12.48 33
50. University of Maryland, USA 12.35 52
51. University of Bristol, UK 12.3 41
52. Utrecht University, Netherlands 12.08 45
53. The University of Edinburgh, UK 11.95 52
54. University of Colorado Boulder, USA 11.89 37
55. Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA 11.84 24
56. University of Massachusetts Worcester, USA 11.68 28
57. University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 11.49 41
58. The Rockefeller University, USA 11.35 31
59. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 10.85 46
60. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 10.8 31
61. The University of Melbourne, Australia 10.78 48
62. National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 10.68 92
63. University of Copenhagen, Denmark 10.59 54
64. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, USA 10.53 20
65. Nagoya University, Japan 10.5 30
66. University of Freiburg, Germany 10.3 33
67. Baylor College of Medicine, USA 10.26 38
68. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 9.98 38
69. Imperial College London, UK 9.96 64
70. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany 9.75 52
71. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA 9.63 35
72. University of Tennessee, USA 9.5 29
73. University of Science and Technology of China, China 9.46 17
74. The University of British Columbia, Canada 9.42 36
75. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), USA 9.41 66
76. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 9.37 47
77. Heidelberg University, Germany 9.28 46
78. Vanderbilt University, USA 9.24 41
79. Pennsylvania State University, USA 9.22 35
80. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), USA 9.21 23
81. Purdue University, USA 9.12 22
82. University of Southern California (USC), USA 9 47
83. University of California Irvine (UCI), USA 8.67 36
84. The Ohio State University, USA 8.61 30
85. Tohoku University, Japan 8.55 27
86. Leibniz Association, Germany 8.49 28
87. University of Utah, USA 8.36 29
88. Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany 8.32 29
89. Tsinghua University, China 8.26 31
90. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA 8.22 25
91. Argonne National Laboratory, USA 8.21 24
92. University of California Davis, USA 8.2 41
93. Peking University, China 8.1 29
94. Australian National University (ANU), Australia 8.1 21
95. National Research Council (CNR), Italy 8.09 49
96. University of Groningen, Netherlands 8.02 37
97. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA 7.8 27
98. McGill University, Canada 7.78 43
99. The University of Manchester, UK 7.76 34
100. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 7.64 17
  1. These rankings are based upon primary research papers published in the Articles, Letters and Brief Communications sections of Nature and Nature monthly research journals in 2012 (excluding journals from scientific societies).
  2. For some organizations such as CNRS, the Max Planck Society and the Chinese Academy Sciences that include numerous research entities we have aggregated results. On the other hand, we have, for example, chosen not to group the 10 universities of the University of California System and have presented each of them as distinct research entities. But, if they were grouped, the System would rank number one with an aggregate corrected count of well over 100 papers.
  3. Represents the corrected count by calculating a corrected point total for each paper from a given country or institution as a decimal fraction of one (up to a maximum of 1), by taking into account the percentage of authors of the paper from that country or institution. All authors are assumed to contribute equally to corrected count, and an author with multiple affiliations is assumed to be divided equally among those affiliations. When an author gives a "present address", "permanent address" or "current address" that affiliation is assumed to not be involved in that author's contribution to the paper and is not included in the corrected count.
  4. Represents the total number of articles that list authors from a given country or institution, regardless of the percentage of authors of the paper from that country or institution.
  5. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), provides funding to universities and other research organizations throughout the United States. In addition they operate the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Virginia.
  6. Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), a Japanese government funding organization that is mentioned in the affiliations of many papers from Japan, is not counted as an institution and is not listed in the Index, however they were affiliated with 82 papers in 2012.
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